Lead Data Engineer Job at Plusnet (Belfast)

Lead Data Engineer

Plusnet

Location:
United Kingdom , Belfast ▼
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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Data is a vital part of our business and with your help, we can improve the services that we provide to our customers through engineering excellence of our data products. You’ll be working on exciting data products which support TV, Broadband, Digital Voice and market leading technologies like Unbreakable Wifi. We deliver these critical services using the latest cloud technologies on AWS, GCP and Cloudera. We are hiring a Lead Data Engineer to join our brilliant team. When you join us as a Lead Data Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of our Data & AI Enablement Team where you will help to design, build, and support high quality engineering products from our extensive data sources and multi-cloud environment. As a team we believe in the agile principles of openness, transparency and continuous improvement, which underpin strong relationships with our business stakeholders. There will be lots of opportunities to explore new technologies, develop new skills, innovate and grow as an engineer.

Job Responsibility:

Design, build, and lead on the development and support of scalable data products for our business stakeholders
Agile development through story planning, estimation and retrospectives
Lead the continual improvement of our solutions, i.e. process improvements / operational monitoring / automation opportunities / security
Provide leadership to our other Data engineering development and support team, contribute to upkeep of our strategic data platform architecture, the data engineering community and associated standards
Collaborate with architects, designers, analysts, product specialists, other software and data engineers – in the support of our data products
Continual improvements using engineering excellence best practices
Demos and knowledge transfers to stakeholders around product developments
Spread your experience and knowledge to junior engineers
Improve automated testing and deployments using CI/CD pipelines
Expectation to line manage small team of junior data engineers
Continual learning through internal and external training

Requirements:

Use of Hadoop / GCP /or AWS to build Big Data solutions
Skilled in using some of these technologies such as Spark, Terraform, Kafka, Kinesis, BigQuery, Dataflow, and SQL
Proficient in programming languages such as Scala, Java, or Python
Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and applications
Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment strategies
Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools
Experienced in using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools
Knowledgeable in software version control with Git or SVN
Capable of presenting technical issues and successes to team members and Product Owners
Has experience of people management or desire to manage individuals on the team

Nice to have:

Experience with Glue, Lambda, Kubernetes
Enthusiastic about learning and applying new technologies (growth mindset)
Ability to build new solutions and support our data solutions/products

What we offer:

10% on target bonus
BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
Life Assurance Cover
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up
Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
2 weeks carer’s leave
World-class training and development opportunities

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 15, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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